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New RBR750 / RBS750 Firmware Version 4.6.3.16 Released
Security Fixes:
Fixes security vulnerabilities.
For more information about security vulnerabilities, visit https://www.netgear.com/about/security.
Bug Fixes:
Fixes the issue where the s...
Again, not defending them or condoning either. I'm here to help get there stuff working in mean time while we wait for NG to fix there mess. Don't assume anything. If you feel i am, thats not my problem.
Maybe I do, Maybe I don't. Theres not much we can do aside help users get there systems working again here in the forums. Beyond that, it's all up to NG.
I'll post how I see fit. Thanks.
This company is a joke. I bought Orbi so I don't have to use my Datacenter knowledge setting up a complicated network again. It's unacceptable for a consumer product that is marketted as hassle free. I did a factory reset in the end to see if it made things better, same **bleep** and even the back haul is disconnected. If I remove the Satellite it ends up as a client device, just like in the early days of the release and firmwares. I know stuff can break but it's totally unacceptable to not shut off updates and her forced automatic updates that break things. Last product I buy from this company due to that policy. Not sure if others have it any better though but probably move to a Unify network, time to take control again...
- I bought my Orbi to move away from my Gryphon that was having similar issues. I’ve now gone back to my old Gryphon setup while this gets fixed (they fixed their issues), but I’m probably done with Netgear now - forcing updates this bad you can’t decline when you have customers paying for things like parental controls (which I did and they worked much better than on my Gryphon while they worked) is completely unacceptable. Where on earth was the QA with this release?!
Unfortunately it's not just this release. We've been fighting bad firmware upgrades for years now, on both the .ac and .ax units. The quality tanked right about the time they removed the ability to disable automatic updates. Maybe they know their firmware QA is fertilizer, so they figure this is the best way to make sure people get patches as quickly as possible.
I did two things this weekend. First, and I encourage everyone to do it too, I gave the Orbi a 1 star review on Amazon and every other site I could find that would let me. That's the only way we can get their attention, because it'll impact sales.
Second, I finished running cat 6e in the house, so no more wireless backhaul. That'll let me switch to a set of regular wifi6 routers instead of a broken mesh system. Now to pick the (non netgear) version. Ubiquity is a non-starter after their security issues (sorry, no cloud management for me). Not even considering anything from Amazon or Google. Linksys maybe?
Anyone have experience running a non-mesh network with multiple AP's in the home, all on one SSID? Do devices roam properly as you walk around? Presume you have to keep them on different channels, or should they all be on one?
+1 I just gave a 1 star on amazon.
This system and the support is a joke !
- I gave a 1 star review and a few days Amazon ES told me that they wont accept that review 🤣 Im laughing but I actually want to cry 😭
I cant record live zoom streamings, cant do podcasts without having issues, I literally cant do my job properly after their firmware update. Super crazy thinking you spend this much money and they do this to us, their CUSTOMERS!!
Good luck to everyone, I have a few friends super happy with Linksys to be honest, if I could sell or throw these orbis at a netgear office window I will and never ever again Netgear. Lesson learned.
TimCakir wrote:
I gave a 1 star review and a few days Amazon ES told me that they wont accept that review 🤣 Im laughing but I actually want to cry 😭
I cant record live zoom streamings, cant do podcasts without having issues, I literally cant do my job properly after their firmware update. Super crazy thinking you spend this much money and they do this to us, their CUSTOMERS!!
Good luck to everyone, I have a few friends super happy with Linksys to be honest, if I could sell or throw these orbis at a netgear office window I will and never ever again Netgear. Lesson learned.
If Amazon won't allow you to post a poor review for some odd reason, tag other poor reviews as "helpful." For most, the reviews sort by most helpful. The more "helpful" tags a review gets, the higher it gets on the default sort that people see first.If the aim is recognition of NG's messed up firmware debacles, it's not enough to post a poor review. A review with no tags by others get buried in the abyss, which for products with 1000s of reviews, is WAAAAYYYY in no-man's land.
Tagging poor reviews as "helpful" is what gets it higher in the default sort that most people see.
COMountainGoat wrote:I did two things this weekend. First, and I encourage everyone to do it too, I gave the Orbi a 1 star review on Amazon and every other site I could find that would let me. That's the only way we can get their attention, because it'll impact sales.
COMountainGoat wrote:I did two things this weekend. First, and I encourage everyone to do it too, I gave the Orbi a 1 star review on Amazon and every other site I could find that would let me. That's the only way we can get their attention, because it'll impact sales.
Already 1 starred my review of a December 2020 purchase and referenced this thread in the review. I cringe every time I see and advertisement for this garbage considering that the first time someone plugs in their new system it will immediately be broken when the firmware updates...
I totally agree, the annoying thing is I can now get a couple of Draytec wifi 6 mesh far cheaper than the Orbi
